Sony Vaio VGN-FJ77GP/B can't boot

[phickl]

HDD has a tick-tock sound when at start-up, is it mechanically fried?

Start-up screen lingers at the [VAIO | Intel | | Phoenix technologies ] screen

Tried booting in safe mode, no avail.

F8 function can still be accessed. but can't boot from HDD either. I can either boot my Hiren7.6 or WinXP disk

Tried to used HDD regenerator but it was runnign too slowly.

When I reboot and I run the Regenerator again, it couldn't detect any drives.

What are the steps should i do next?

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Is the drive detected by your BIOS? If not, odds are she's a goner...

 

[phickl]

Where do i check the whether the Bios detect the HDD or not?

I just run the XP setup again. it can't detect the HDD

 

[phickl]

under the BIOs; HDD : None.

zomg.

 

[phickl]

I have a spare HDD 160GB, any tutorials i can go to view installation how-tos?

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

It is a very safe bet that it's dead. If you want or need further confirmation, remove the drive from your system and attach it to another as a secondary drive and attempt to view it in that system's BIOS as well as in an OS environment.

Hope you didn't have anything important on the drive .